When I updated to the latest v0.972 release, I once again encountered a Java error at startup about "java.lang.unsatisfiedlinkerror: no tray in java.library.path" blah, blah.

So I did a diff with my previous version and saw that several of the Linux files weren't present in the new version, including the "libtray.so" file.

Copying all ./ted_v9715/linux/x86/*.so into ./ted_v972/linux/x86/ solved this issue for me. Looks like these were left out of the latest release (I think this happened before, as well.)

Hope this helps.

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cK

Same issue seen on another linux host.
Workaround reported above addresses issue.

Additional workarounds :
add 'noTray' to end of command line when launching application

Perhaps future versions of this application can have those shared object files included by default?
OR
"Extra | Preferences | Look and Feel | _ Add ted to the sysem tray (restart needed)" is DISabled by default for linux users.
At least then the program can start.